Joe Farnam, the dogged, data-driven discoverer of the ozone hole, died in 2013, three years before publication of findings showing that the ozone layer, which protects life on earth from UV radiation, has finally started to recover. This nascent recovery comes 42 years after atmospheric chemists fir...

Thirty-two years ago, I did a deep dive into political apologies and published it in the Wall Street Journal. The bottom line: apologies work for incumbents, but not challengers. I suspect we'll still be hearing them thirty-two years from now -- and they'll still be just as insincere.